Claus Bury

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Bitterfeld Arch (2006)

Claus Bury (born March 29, 1946 in Gelnhausen -Meerholz) is a German sculptor . He became known for his monumental architectural sculptures in public spaces.

Life

Bury is the son of Fritz Bury and his wife Gerda, geb. Dinse. Bury traditionally completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith journeyman at the State Drawing Academy in Hanau from 1962 to 1965. From 1965 to 1969 he studied at the Werkkunstschule (today: Pforzheim University ). In 1976 he received a grant from the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI (BDI), and in 1981 a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts , Washington. From 1979 to 1984 Bury lived in the USA, in Providence, Rhode Island.

In 1986 he received the August-Seeling-Förderpreis of the support group of the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, and in 1991 the art promotion prize for city sculptors of the city of Hanau. In 1987 Bury accepted a professorship at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . From 2003 to 2011 he held a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg .

For the importance of his work for the entire Rhine-Main-Kinzig area, Bury was honored in 2011 with the culture prize of the Main-Kinzig district . As a member of the German Association of Artists , Claus Bury took part in the DKB exhibitions in 1994 ( prima idea , 42nd annual exhibition in Mannheim) and 1997 ( What is. , 45th annual exhibition in Wismar and Rostock).

Bury lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

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Bury gets inspiration for his sculptures from his travels through different continents, during which he photographed and painted testimonies of early architectural history, ruins and temples, including in Greece, Egypt and Central America. "In dialogue with the past, the archeology enthusiast penetrates the essence of the places visited."

Bury regularly uses the number systems of the mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci in the design of his sculptures . This also applies to his largest work to date, the Bitterfeld Arch , a steel sculpture that serves as a viewing platform.

We're all in the same boat (1996), Gelnhausen

For his hometown of Gelnhausen, Bury designed the architectural sculpture We are all in the same boat , weighing around 280 t and ten meters high ; It was set up on the occasion of the Hessentag 1996. For this purpose, he only used wood that was available due to wind breakage or environmental damage. The work of art made reference to the imperial palace of Gelnhausen , which was built on many thousands of tree trunks, as well as to the destruction of the environment worldwide by modern humans. In February 2010 it was dismantled for weather-related reasons, although the artist had planned the work of art to decay on site. Funds that citizens had collected to save the work of art had not been enough for a repair.

In 2010 the city of Gelnhausen acquired the wooden walk-in sculpture Greenhouse for Thoughts, five meters high, ten meters long and eight meters wide . The work was created in 2004 and was in the Neues Museum , Nuremberg until 2010 . The sculpture was erected on June 21, 2010 on the banks of the Kinzig . In July 2010 it was cordoned off by the building supervisor, although the artist designed it to be walkable.

Public works (selection)

Publications

  • Farmer architecture, travel photography - Farmers' Architecture , de./en .; Text by Florian Hufnagl . Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86832-114-2 .
  • Weimar Classic Foundation, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (Ed.): Claus Bury. My point of view . Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86832-218-7 . Insight into the artist's working method.

Web links

Commons : Claus Bury  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Undine von Rönn: Dialogue with the Past ( Memento from June 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), art Kunstmagazin, July 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2011 ART: Prof. Claus Bury , District Committee of the Main-Kinzig District, Gelnhausen.
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Participation in exhibitions by Bury, Claus (accessed on March 4, 2016).
  4. ↑ dam-online.de: CLAUS BURY. In the opposite direction. Architecture and Sculpture (accessed April 4, 2016).
  5. ↑ Luise Schendel, quoted from: Undine von Rönn, Dialogue with the Past ( Memento from June 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , art Kunstmagazin, July 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ An der Kinzig: Burgmühle, Wehr and “We are all in the same boat” sculpture , Gudrun Kauck, October 2008 / February 2010.
  7. ↑ Gudrun Kauck: "Greenhouse for Thoughts" - sculpture by Claus Bury. In: gudrunkauck.de. April 2016, accessed December 30, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jörg Andersson: A huge gift . Frankfurter Rundschau, June 19, 2010.
  9. ↑ Ute Vetter: Inaccessible Art , Frankfurter Rundschau, July 21, 2010.
  10. ^ Temple gate and an accessible city map for Hanau , in: FAZ from April 2, 2016, page 43.
  11. ↑ Mayan temple made of straw in: FAZ from December 15, 2012, page 33.
  12. ↑ Dialogue with the past . Homepage of art - the art magazine . Retrieved July 31, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Bury, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Meerholz-Gelnhausen